It was New Zealand's worst public health disaster, with more than 9000 deaths in about eight weeks. The misnamed "Spanish Flu" killed about 50 million people and infected hundreds of millions after it spread around the world in 1918-19. It killed almost...

It was New Zealand's worst public health disaster, with more than 9000 deaths in about eight weeks. The misnamed "Spanish Flu" killed about 50 million people and infected hundreds of millions after it spread around the world in 1918-19. It killed almost three times as many as World War I, which lasted for four years.